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I might not remember correctly but
lxc came out around 2008.
Docker in 2013. The lxc
commands had the trend of dashes in their name — lxc-attach, lxc-snapshot,
lxc-copy and so forth. It had lots of boilerplate and a steep learning curve.
Then lxd arrived (in 2015?)
to make everything user friendly. lxd is preferred. I still mostly use lxc
out of habit.
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After daily driving NixOS and the Nix for almost three years, it feels like it’ll be simplified by entities external to the project. It’s still in that academic phase (don’t do this/that) and needs software engineering .
That usually involves reducing boilerplate ruthlessly while
generalizing/capturing fundamental uses cases (setting implicit best current
practices). It’s reminiscent of lxc just before docker arrived for the
masses.
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Surely typing/saying the below Alpine command to install Firefox is way easier than who knows what multi–stage process other operating systems require.
apk add firefoxGoogle’s search box (rather tongue in cheek) is the most popular command line
interface in use today. With NLP,
installing and running firefox would just be a phrase equivalent that compiles
to:
firefoxOn NixOS, we can already do stuff like that. Of course, NixOS lacks a translation/encapsulation layer for imperative to declarative specification — so user friendliness suffers dramatically.
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It’s kinda odd being able to remember what things were like before Docker appeared. Docker is the software developer’s take on creating a Linux distribution. It’s useful, but the indirection of containers and pinning can be deadly. Avoiding unnecessary indirection is advantageous.